Bug 91867 - Allow caps lock to be used as menu key
Summary: Allow caps lock to be used as menu key
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xkeyboard-config
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: xkb
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Reported: 2015-09-03 14:34 UTC by Felipe Lessa
Modified: 2016-01-14 01:07 UTC (History)
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adds the «menu» option for capslock (1.77 KB, patch)
2015-11-07 13:09 UTC, Benno Schulenberg 		Details | Splinter Review
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Description Felipe Lessa 2015-09-03 14:34:15 UTC 
Currently there are many nice behaviors that can be used for the caps lock key.  It would be even better if caps lock could be turned into the menu key.

So, adding something like the following to symbols/capslock:

hidden partial modifier_keys
xkb_symbols "capsmenu" {
    key <CAPS> { [ Menu ] };
};
Comment 1 Felipe Lessa 2015-09-03 16:08:42 UTC 
In case anyone is curious about the motivation, I've written a blog post about it. http://blog.felipe.lessa.nom.br/?p=137
Comment 2 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2015-09-09 23:46:28 UTC 
Would you be able to provide a patch for symbols/capslock, rules/base.o_s.part and rules/base.xml.in ?

Also, would caps:super and caps:hyper be good enough for you?
Comment 3 Felipe Lessa 2015-09-10 01:27:53 UTC 
> Also, would caps:super and caps:hyper be good enough for you?

If by that you mean setting Caps Lock to Super/Hyper, I'm not sure but I don't think so, as I'm trying to use it as a non-modifier key on emacs.
Comment 4 Benno Schulenberg 2015-11-07 13:09:11 UTC 
Created attachment 119461 [details] [review]
adds the «menu» option for capslock
Comment 5 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2016-01-14 01:07:01 UTC 
Committed to git, thank you!

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